Let’s discuss the WH Nutcracker Christmas video

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Anonymous wrote:I love it. That dance troupe is really fabulous. Do you know them? They are based in NYC. So joyous. Tap dancing is infectious.

Thanks for sharing. I’ve watched it twice. So nice to see something that makes me smile instead of cry.

No, they are not fabulous. The dancing is very amateurish.

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Anonymous wrote: I love tap dancing -- this was awesome!

I’ve seen much, much better.

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Anonymous wrote:The negativity has more to do with the color of the skin of the dancers.

Oh, there you are!

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Anonymous wrote:Creepy. Starts out with a long hallway, like a Christmas edition of the Shining, and a poorly lit figure leading you "follow the white rabbit" style deeper into the lair.

At first you think, well. They went cheap on the decorator and the lighting. Then figure appears with a rat head and a zoot suit, and its clear this is some kind of holiday themed take on horror. A man with a flower head. A deranged woman with a flat head and Cheshire cat smile. They arrange themselves unnaturally far apart for television, creating eerie negative space. It crosses your mind that this fever dream may end in murder.

It ends and you feel unsettled and vaguely disoriented. What was the message here? Was this directed by an American Horror Story intern? Why was there a rat headed man? Aren't flowers out of season? Can't the White House afford better lighting for their short films?

When can we go back to less stylized, artistic christmas videos from the political class? Something Hallmarky would be nice.

I laughed. Bravo!

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Anonymous wrote:Kids love tap and jazz, nothing evokes the warmth of Christmas like tap and jazz.

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This particular open-mouthed woman is over-acting in the worst way.

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Anonymous wrote:The negativity has more to do with the color of the skin of the dancers.

There is no diversity in the dancers.

Not a single Asian person. Didn’t see a Hispanic anywhere even though they have higher population now than African Americans.

I also found this video extremely offensive due to all of the ableist in the performance. Not a single person with a disability represented. Typical ableist blinders.

This has to be a troll…

Troll is a slur for little people.

I love you.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:The dancers look like extras from Hunger Games…and the dance troupe itself has a train load of baggage following it.

You must be watching a different video than the rest of us.

And none of us recall where the Hunger Games was all about music and dance and colorful costumes....

How about just knock it off with your silly, disjointed and desperate nonsense attempt at trying to knock a nice video.

DP. Someone ^^^ clearly has never watched the Hunger Games - and has zero sense of humor.

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Anonymous wrote:The negativity has more to do with the color of the skin of the dancers.

No, it's because there's no one over 65 dancing and tapping. Blatant discrimination against senior citizens.

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I didn't like it. Am I allowed to voice such an opinion? Will I be snapped at and cancelled by those who refuse to hear any criticism of the Bidens? (But who dished it out daily during the last administration.) Not a huge fan of tap-dancing - especially at Christmas. The Nutcracker is a ballet and its music is iconic. This wasn't it.

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I think the dancers were good, but they really, really wanted to make sure we understood the performance was queer coded and POCmaxxing. They should have also made sure we understood that it was a holiday performance and spent some time thinking about how to make it warm and gauzy. It feels lazy to put out poor quality productions, heavy on the use of dancing "oppressed" people and then just call everyone racist when they watch it and predictably ask wtf.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the dancers were good, but they really, really wanted to make sure we understood the performance was queer coded and POCmaxxing. They should have also made sure we understood that it was a holiday performance and spent some time thinking about how to make it warm and gauzy. It feels lazy to put out poor quality productions, heavy on the use of dancing "oppressed" people and then just call everyone racist when they watch it and predictably ask wtf.

Well said. Note, all the responses to negative criticism insist the critic must be "racist." It's all so completely predictable and tiresome.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the dancers were good, but they really, really wanted to make sure we understood the performance was queer coded and POCmaxxing. They should have also made sure we understood that it was a holiday performance and spent some time thinking about how to make it warm and gauzy. It feels lazy to put out poor quality productions, heavy on the use of dancing "oppressed" people and then just call everyone racist when they watch it and predictably ask wtf.

There’s lot of black, Latino, and gay dancers in NYC. Do you even live in a real city?

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Loved it. Didn’t like the camera work, gave me vertigo watching it.

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I thought it was really fun. What an interesting video to show off the decorations.

Several of us on a dance parent board did have concern for the floors, though

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Anonymous wrote:Loved it. Didn’t like the camera work, gave me vertigo watching it.

Quality of dancing is terrible.